Most popular lecture on racism, oppression, poverty and social injustice
with more than 6,500 presentations in American and European Higher Education:

During the last couple of years I have seen a lot of my
photographed friends in American Pictures pass away. So
here at my 70 year birthday I want to send my thanks
both to them and our audiences for your warm support
throughout my 41 years of touring with American Pictures

Racism in America, in Europe or universally: American Pictures is an audio-visual anti-racism program which in an effective, entertaining and moving way shows the ultimate cost of racial
discrimination, segregation and ghettoization of ethnic minorities. Jacob Holdt's pictures of poverty, oppression, slavery and injustice in the black underclass are used widely for racial prejudice reduction and multicultural diversity training in
universities, colleges and high schools, but are also excellent for sociology conventions and human rights seminars.

Jacob Holdt's photography of despairing poor black ghettos and mind crippling child poverty as the end result of white supremacy and institutionalized inequality and injustice - not to speak
of his shocking portrayal of extremist white hate groups, Ku Klux Klan and neo Nazis and even mass murderers - seems to belong in a distant history, but is made long after the civil rights struggle. His documentary slideshow has for 25 years been the
most used Black History Month events and freshman orientation programs with the longest track record ever on the American campus lecture circuit. As a former hitchhiking vagabond turned professional speaker, Danish photographer and author Jacob Holdt
has become a must in race relations wherever the emphasis is on multiculturalism, diversity training and conflict resolution.